poverty

The fight to eradicate poverty has made significant progress in the past two decades. Global poverty as a percentage of population was 35 percent in 1990 and dropped to 10.7 percent by 2013. Yet, millions of people around the...

Traditional global development narratives would have you believe that the world’s perennial problems of thirst, hunger, and disease are caused by an excess of humans—that more people mean more problems. One leading...

Climate change made headlines in recent months as global leaders converged upon the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, better known as COP21, and emerged triumphantly with a climate deal. Yet for the estimated 400,000...